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Richard Robbins

Composer / Film Director / Screenwriter | * 12/04/1940 († 71, 11/07/2012) | South Weymouth, Massachusetts (United States of America (USA))
Richard Stephen Robbins (December 4, 1940 – November 7, 2012) was an American-born composer, best known for his motion picture scores for the Merchant Ivory films. Robbins was born in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. In November 2012, he died of Parkinson's disease at the age of 71. He died at his home in New York. ()

Richard Stephen Robbins was an American-born composer, best known for his motion picture scores for the Merchant Ivory films.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Documentaries

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A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of roman ...

The Remains of the Day

PG

1993 | 3.7/5 | 2h 14min
Drama, Romance / Love
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A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with t ...

Howards End

PG

1992 | 3.5/5 | 2h 22min
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After his lover rejects him, a young man in early 20th century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality. ...

Maurice

R

1987 | 3.8/5 | 2h 20min
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When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emerson ...

A Room with a View

NR

1985 | 3.5/5 | 1h 57min
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Awards & Nominations for Richard Robbins

2x Academy Award for Best Original Score
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Movies with Richard Robbins as Actor(2)

as Himself (archive footage)2023 Merchant Ivory
2001 The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey

Movies with Richard Robbins as Crew(29)

Sound/Music2019 Rich Atmosphere: The Music of Merchant Ivory Films
Sound/Original Music Composer2005 The White Countess
Sound/Original Music Composer2003 Le Divorce
Sound/Music2003 Par amour
Sound/Music2001 The Mystic Masseur
Sound/Music2001 Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Sound/Music2001 The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Sound/Music2000 The Golden Bowl
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Cotton Mary
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Surviving Picasso
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 The Proprietor
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Jefferson in Paris
Directing/Director1994 Street Musicians of Bombay
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 The Remains of the Day
Sound/Original Music Composer1992 Howards End
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Sound/Music1990 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Sound/Original Music Composer1989 Slaves of New York
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 The Perfect Murder
Sound/Original Music Composer1987 Maurice
Sound/Original Music Composer1986 My Little Girl
Sound/Original Music Composer1985 A Room with a View
Sound/Original Music Composer1984 The Bostonians
Sound/Original Music Composer1983 Heat and Dust
Sound/Music1981 Quartet
Sound/Original Music Composer1980 Jane Austen in Manhattan
Sound/Music1979 The Europeans
Directing/Director1976 Sweet Sounds

Full Name: Richard Robbins
Born: Wednesday, 12/04 1940 (December) in South Weymouth, Massachusetts (United States of America (USA))
Died: Wednesday, 11/07 2012 (November) in Rhinebeck (aged: 71)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Other names for Richard Robbins (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Richard Robbins (composer)"
Richard Robbins frequently works together with these people:
Ismail Merchant (28x, Crew)
James Ivory (25x, Crew)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (16x, Crew)
Paul Bradley (12x, Crew)
Donald Rosenfeld (10x, Crew)
John Bright (10x, Crew)
Jenny Beavan (9x, Crew)
Celestia Fox (8x, Crew)
Tony Pierce-Roberts (8x, Crew)
Carol Hemming (7x, Crew)
Andrew Marcus (7x, Crew)

Other people with this name: Richard Robbins (US)

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